Tyumba

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Type : Station
Line : Ballina branch
Distance from Sydney : 862.145km
Opened : 25 August 1930
Closed : 12 January 1949
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Probably an Aboriginal word
Notes: Tyumba had a 30 metre platform and a short goods loop that could hold 5 S trucks. A pig race was located on the main line. Along with Teven and Ballina it opened with the line.

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Ian Kirkland at Tyumba station on the old Ballina Railway line. Today it is in the middle of a macadamia plantation.

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Station name board

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SMH 4/4/51 - Tender for work at the station site of Tyumba on the old Ballina line.

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Location of Tyumba station on the Ballina branch , the building still exists but has been moved on the property.


(Image: Six Maps)

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Tyumba Railway Station on the Ballina branch - 3 shots taken 1987 and a recent photo of it now restored and used on a Macadamia farm. (Bryan Vanderstelt)

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Construction plans - Tyumba

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Tyumba - yard layout, 1942

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Tyumba, probably early 80s

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Tyumba toilet block, 2018 (Uniquely North Coast)

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1942 diagram